Sustainable Business Leadership:
Practices in Support of People, Profits and Principles
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE for 2014
(Online Session dates: July 14-25 & August 4-7, 2014)
Residential Session: Monday-Friday, July 28-August 1 and August 8, 2014
NOTE: Credit students will be expected to return to campus on Friday, August 8 in-person in
order to present their final projects. Credit students are required to participate in all four
weeks of the program.
Important Note for Non-Credit Students: Non-credit students are not required to
participate in the final project or the last online week portion of the course. Non-credit
students are expected to participate in the two weeks of online work prior to the campus
session, and the campus session, for a total of three weeks: Online: July 14-25, Residential
Session: July 28-August 1.
Date/Time
:
Presenter:
Session:
Location:
Introduction to Course &
Projects
Waterman 427
Introduction to Ecological
Economics
Waterman 427
Lunch and CEO Panel:
Creating New Markets and
Models for Sustainability
Waterman
Manor
Sustainable Scale, Efficient
Allocation, and Fair
Distribution
Waterman 427
Monday – July 28
9:0010:00am
William Cats-Baril,
10:00am12:00pm
Jon Erickson,
12:001:30pm
Beth Sachs,
Director, MBA Program
Dean, Rubenstein School of
Environment & Natural
Resources
Founder, VEIC
Pat Burns,
Owner, City Market
1:303:30pm
Jon Erickson,
Dean, Rubenstein School of
Environment & Natural
Resources
3:455:00pm
William Cats-Baril,
Project discussion
Waterman 427
Review of Day Before and
Plan for the Day Ahead
Waterman 427
Director, MBA Program
Tuesday – July 29
9:009:30am
William Cats-Baril
9:30am12:00pm
Julie Nash,
12:001:30pm
Sanjay Sharma,
1:455:00pm
Willy Cats-Baril,
Director, MBA Program
Rubenstein School of
Environment & Natural
Resources
Dean, School of Business
Administration
Sustainable Business Strategy Waterman 427
& Gaining and Sustaining a
Competitive Advantage
Luncheon & Leading Change
for Sustainability
Waterman
Manor
Site Visits to Companies
Company Sites
Review of Day before and
Plan for the Day Ahead
Waterman 427
Corporate Social
Responsibility
Waterman 427
Growth Capital for
Sustainability
Waterman
Manor
Corporate Sustainability
Reporting & Accounting
Waterman 427
Director, MBA Program
Wednesday - July 30
9:009:15am
William Cats-Baril
9:1512:00pm
David Jones,
Director, MBA Program
Associate Professor, School
of Business Administration
12:001:30pm
Yola Carlough,
1:303:30pm
Marti Woodman,
B-Corp
Lecturer, School of Business
Administration
3:455:15pm
Julie Nash,
Rubenstein School of
Environment & Natural
Resources
Sustainable Practice
Transparency
Waterman 427
Review of Day before and
Plan for the Day Ahead
Waterman 427
Leadership & Organizational
Culture in Sustainable
Enterprises
Waterman 427
Thursday – July 31
9:009:15am
William Cats-Baril
9:15am12:00pm
David Jones,
12:001:30pm
TBD
Sustainability Leadership
Presentation and Panel
Waterman
Manor
1:452:45pm
Joe Fusco,
Sustainability Practices at
Casella
Waterman 427
3:00pm4:00pm
Mike Palmer,
Business Ethics
Waterman 427
4:005:30pm
William Cats-Baril
Project Discussions
Waterman 427
Director, MBA Program
Instructor will spend 30 min
with each group. Student
group work when not with
Instructor.
Director, MBA Program
Associate Professor, School
of Business Administration
Vice President, Casella
Waste Management
JD WaterRotor
Friday – August 1
9:009:30am
William Cats-Baril
9:3010:45pm
Scott Comeau,
Director, MBA Program
Chief Financial Officer,
Review of Day before and
Plan for the Day Ahead
Waterman 427
Real World Tactics in the
Energy Efficiency Space of
Sustainability
Waterman 427
Vermont Energy
Investment Company
(VEIC)
11:00am12:00pm
Kevin Jones, JD
12:001:30pm
Smart Grids
Waterman 427
TBD
Leadership Luncheon Panel:
Greening Your Supply Chain,
Operations, and Bottom Line
Waterman
Manor
1:302:30pm
Nick Donowitz, Director,
Corporate Development,
Heliae
Starting and Growing a
Company in the
Sustainability Space: Being
Nimble Helps…
Waterman
Manor
2:453:30pm
William Cats-Baril,
Return to
campus
Friday,
August 8.
Presentation to client
Vermont Law School
Director, MBA Program
Closing Remarks and
Certificate Presentation
Note: Credit Students Only
Waterman 427
TBD